Creating .Srt files that can be imported into project

Question

Hey everyone,

So I have an interview that is in Portugese. I used Premiere's portugese transcription tool, which did a pretty good job. Is there a way to directly translate everything into English inside premiere? it doesn't look like it. Therefore, I had to export the transcription into a .txt file, then translate it into English with a different app. Now what I'm trying to do is turn that translated transcription into a .srt file, so that I can import it into premiere. I used a tool online that appeared to give me a .srt file, but when i tried to import it i got a generic error. I think as long as I can get the right kind of .srt file, it should work.

Thanks!

Stan Jones · Accepted Answer

So I think my biggest problem with the suggested workflow right now is that I'm not sending the transcript to a human to do the translation. My boss wants me to do this using deepL, a translation AI tool, or something of the equivalent.

When I export the .srt file from captions, deepL will not allow me to import the .srt file. Therefore, (unless I want to try translating the whole thing by hand in the .srt file), I need to create a .txt file, import it into deepL, and then reconvert the .txt file that deepL spits out into a .srt file, then import into Premiere. I hope you're following me here, any suggestions?

First, just rename the srt file to txt. Will that import? But it may mess up the timecodes. Since DeepL is paid, I only test so far.

Second, as a test, try using Subtitle Edit to do the translation. It uses Google. Just import the SRT, then translate. It should keep the srt structure.

Stan

Stan Jones · Answer

Fin,

The better workflow is to export srt and do the translation there, so that all the timecodes and formatting are in place.

When you export a text file, the timecodes are in the wrong form. So I wonder if that throws off the conversion. Here is a post where I discuss those issues:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/how-to-import-caption-txt-file-in-premiere-pro-2022/m-p/12483176#M374904

And here's another type of example:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/problems-with-subtitle/m-p/13463858#M447603

It would help if you paste here the first few lines of your translated file. I can look to see what type of conversion/editing might work.

Stan

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